Kubernetes Job Trends in Surrey

Kubernetes (k8s)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 58 73
Rank change year-on-year -30 +15 +3
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 8 46 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.48% 3.81% 2.06%
As % of the Systems Management category 9.30% 57.50% 25.26%
Number of salaries quoted 5 22 14
10th Percentile £58,500 £43,750 £34,975
25th Percentile £60,000 £44,688 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,750 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% - -24.19%
75th Percentile £63,750 £73,438 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,000 £76,125 £83,750
South East median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000

All Systems Management Skills
Surrey

Kubernetes falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 86 80 95
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 5.18% 6.63% 8.16%
Number of salaries quoted 60 41 70
10th Percentile £29,000 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £34,188 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £72,750
South East median annual salary £52,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% -

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Surrey

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Surrey over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in Surrey

Kubernetes
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 17 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Guildford -7 3 £62,500 +6.38% 20
Leatherhead - 3 - -
Epsom +6 1 £60,000 -
Kubernetes
South East

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (50.00%) GitHub
2 4 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (37.50%) AWS
3 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (37.50%) Azure AKS
3 3 (37.50%) OpenShift
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (12.50%) Azure
5 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) HTTP
2 1 (12.50%) RTP
2 1 (12.50%) Unified Communications
2 1 (12.50%) VoIP
2 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) GitLab
2 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
3 1 (12.50%) Gatling
3 1 (12.50%) Git
3 1 (12.50%) JMeter
3 1 (12.50%) JUnit
3 1 (12.50%) Postman
3 1 (12.50%) Selenium
3 1 (12.50%) TestNG
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Aerospace
3 2 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Developer in Test
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Django
1 1 (12.50%) Flask
1 1 (12.50%) FreeSWITCH
1 1 (12.50%) Jinja
1 1 (12.50%) OAuth
1 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
1 1 (12.50%) Playwright
1 1 (12.50%) pytest
1 1 (12.50%) REST
1 1 (12.50%) RFC 2833
1 1 (12.50%) SQLAlchemy
1 1 (12.50%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (25.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) DevOps
3 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (50.00%) Agile
4 4 (50.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (37.50%) AI
5 3 (37.50%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (37.50%) Continuous Deployment
5 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (37.50%) Performance Metrics
5 3 (37.50%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
6 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
6 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (25.00%) Observability
7 1 (12.50%) OO
7 1 (12.50%) OOP
7 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) Go
3 1 (12.50%) C
3 1 (12.50%) C++
3 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) AWS Certification
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Ansible
1 5 (62.50%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Argo
2 2 (25.00%) Grafana
2 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (25.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) BT
2 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Mitel